Day: October 7, 2019

HRD minister lays stone for IIM campus in Amritsar

11:20 pm October 7, 2019

Amritsar: Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal here on Monday laid the foundation stone for the campus of the Indian Institute of Management in Amritsar’s Manawalla. The IIM campus would come up on 60,000 sq metres and have state-of-the-art facilities in the library, academic block and hostels, said Pokhriyal. He said for the first stage of […]

3,337 children adopted in last one year: WCD ministry

Guj govt sets up monitoring centre for Anganwadis

9:21 pm October 7, 2019

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Monday launched a monitoring centre at Gandhinagar for centralised supervision of Anganwadis in the state. The State Monitoring Centre, under the Women and Child Development Department, has been designed to receive data of various schemes, number of children and facilities provided to them as well as other activities […]

How the ridiculous helps Twinkle fight on

9:15 pm October 7, 2019

Mumbai: Actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna on Monday counted her ability to look at the ridiculous and pull off quick ones even in the most unlikeliest times as her strength which helps her fight any difficulties. Khanna was speaking at the launch of ‘Hope Exists’, a book of poems and paintings by 19-year-old Rayna Arya who was […]

Bru voters to be deleted from Mizoram electoral roll

Protests over killing of Bru woman stalls repatriation

9:10 pm October 7, 2019

Agartala/Aizawl: Protests over the killing of a Bru woman allegedly by her husband in Mamit district of Mizoram, bordering Tripura, has stalled the on-going repatriation of Bru refugees who put up blockades in protest on Monday, officials said. In the ninth round of repatriation which is termed as the “final” one, altogether 4,447 Bru families, […]

4.3-magnitude earthquake hits Assam

9:07 pm October 7, 2019

Guwahati: A 4.3-magnitude earthquake, with epicentre in Bhutan, rocked Assam at 6.05 pm on Monday, the meteorological office here said. The quake struck at a depth of 10 km in the neighbouring Himalayan kingdom, with latitude 27.9 degree north and longitude 91.5 degree east, it said. No casualty or damage to property has been reported […]